I THINK THE ALIENS ARE ARABS

A lot of people are predicting Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 to be the sleeper hit of the summer, and now we’ve got a full-length trailer. (Trailer also available in HD at Yahoo)

Thirty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in Johannesburg, South Africa’s District 9 as the world’s nations argued over what to do with them. [Yahoo]

The film was shot documentary-style, and as you can see from the trailer, robots also seem to factor into the plot somehow. Anyway, the humans fear the aliens, so they marginalize them from society and control their movements, and the aliens’ frustrations eventually makes them violent, which only proves to the humans they were right to stick them in ghettoes all along. Anyone else smell a parable for Palestinians, or some other ethnic minority group? Then again, the director’s South African, so it might just be an allegory for how much he hates black people. They can get away with that in South Africa. Why? Diplomatic immunity.

The Mighty Feklahr cannot see the video, but is sure it is about a small group of Klingons in South Africa revolting because they cannot get flats of cardboard to hold their “BREAKdance-off To Save The WRECK Center”!

By: Fek'lhr

07.09.2009 @ 9:26 AM

You guys will have to bear with Him today. He drank PBR last night to be cool like Walt Kowalski, and now is paying for it.

By: Mr. Falcon

07.09.2009 @ 9:26 AM

Always bet on black.

Unless you’re in South Africa.

By: FistfulOAwesome

07.09.2009 @ 11:51 AM

When Aliens revolt, they steal all the Proctologist equipment.

By: MountCleverest

07.10.2009 @ 12:11 AM

Skynet was an alien race. That explains the Terminator series completely. It all makes sense now.